Man. It's like the US is taking lessons in colonial administration straight from the fucking British Raj.

The Onion takes on Outsourcing

Favorite Catullus Moment in a Smiths song:



"I want to live and I want to love"

-in "Frankly, Mr Shankly," off The Queen is Dead

One great thing about being back in New York is that here, music stores don't keep their hip hop sections in glass cases - you can actually browse. Don't get me wrong, i think Cutler's is a great store. The folks who work there know their music and love to talk to folks about music, and if i were staying in New Haven (and weren't organizing) i would love to work there. But keeping the hip hop section behind glass is totally unjustifiable. It constructs hip hop and hip hops fans, through a racialized lens, as criminal. In New Haven, a city which is 44% African American and 20% Latino/a, Cutlers, which now sits at the gentrified heart of Yale's post-urban yuppie amusement park, instates and performs the logics of the exclusionary architecture of Bruce Alexander's wildest dreams. There are more pressing fights to be waged, certainly, but i think people who shop at Cutlers should let the folks there know that you aren't happy about this.

except i was never very smiley. And i didn't go to graduation. But otherwise the resemblance is uncanny!

There's something very strange about watching "Office Space" on the Lifetime Movie Network. (Though maybe that's just because it reminds me of the fact that i am not working.)

Time Magazine: In the room where Clinton got blow jobs, Bush fetishizes conquest.